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Tonello Michael
Tonello Michael - Bringing Home The Birkin My Life In Hot Pursuit Of The World's Most Coveted Handbag - Paperback
Tonello Michael - Bringing Home The Birkin My Life In Hot Pursuit Of The World's Most Coveted Handbag - Paperback
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Description: A memoir of madcap travels triumphs and humiliations. Tonello peels back the layers of pretension at the eminent design house . Anyone who's ever stepped into a luxury boutique and felt the sting of the doorman's disapproval will find a hero in Tonello. Miami Herald The hilarious whirlwind account of an insider's years spent globe - trotting in search of the handbag called a better investment than gold : the Birkin. With a life that reads like a heist novel Michael Tonello reveals the secret to bagging this legendary purse coveted by celebrities and status - seekers around the world. For more than twenty years the Herm's Birkin bag has been the iconic symbol of fashion luxury and wealth. Though the bag is often seen dangling from the arms of celebrities there is a fabled waiting list of more than two years to buy one from Herm's and the average fashionista has a better chance of climbing Mount Everest in Prada pumps than of possessing one of these coveted carryalls. Unless of course she happens to know Michael Tonello Michael's newfound career started with an impulsive move to Barcelona a vanished job assignment no work visa and a Herm's scarf sold on e Bay to generate some quick cash. But soon the resourceful Michael discovered the truth about the waiting list and figured out the secret to getting Herm's to part with one of these precious bags. Millions of dollars worth of Birkins later Michael had become one of e Bay's most successful entrepreneurs and a Robin Hood to thousands of desperate rich women. With down - to - earth wit Michael chronicles the unusual ventures that took him to nearly every continent from e Bay to Paris auction house and into the lives of celebrities and poseurs. Flirting with danger Michael recounts the heady rush of hand delivering his first big score to famed songwriter Carole Bayer Sager in Paris; how he had to hire thugs to rescue a bag that one of his shoppers held for ransom; and the story of the Oscar - worthy performances that allowed him to snag reserved bags from other less dogged Birkin seekers. Whether he's relating his wining and dining buying and selling dodging and weaving laughing and crying or schmoozing and stammering Michael is a master raconteur who weaves together tales of hunting Birkins in the world's most posh locales memories of meals that would make any gastronome salivate anecdotes of obsessed collectors with insatiable desires and sweetly intimate stories about his family friends and finding true love. The result is a memoir that is distinctive fun page - turning and as addictive as its namesake.
Title: Bringing Home The Birkin My Life In Hot Pursuit Of The World's Most Coveted Handbag
Author(s): Tonello Michael
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780061473340
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 7/21/2009
Category: Fashion & Society
Description: A memoir of madcap travels triumphs and humiliations. Tonello peels back the layers of pretension at the eminent design house . Anyone who's ever stepped into a luxury boutique and felt the sting of the doorman's disapproval will find a hero in Tonello. Miami Herald The hilarious whirlwind account of an insider's years spent globe - trotting in search of the handbag called a better investment than gold : the Birkin. With a life that reads like a heist novel Michael Tonello reveals the secret to bagging this legendary purse coveted by celebrities and status - seekers around the world. For more than twenty years the Herm's Birkin bag has been the iconic symbol of fashion luxury and wealth. Though the bag is often seen dangling from the arms of celebrities there is a fabled waiting list of more than two years to buy one from Herm's and the average fashionista has a better chance of climbing Mount Everest in Prada pumps than of possessing one of these coveted carryalls. Unless of course she happens to know Michael Tonello Michael's newfound career started with an impulsive move to Barcelona a vanished job assignment no work visa and a Herm's scarf sold on e Bay to generate some quick cash. But soon the resourceful Michael discovered the truth about the waiting list and figured out the secret to getting Herm's to part with one of these precious bags. Millions of dollars worth of Birkins later Michael had become one of e Bay's most successful entrepreneurs and a Robin Hood to thousands of desperate rich women. With down - to - earth wit Michael chronicles the unusual ventures that took him to nearly every continent from e Bay to Paris auction house and into the lives of celebrities and poseurs. Flirting with danger Michael recounts the heady rush of hand delivering his first big score to famed songwriter Carole Bayer Sager in Paris; how he had to hire thugs to rescue a bag that one of his shoppers held for ransom; and the story of the Oscar - worthy performances that allowed him to snag reserved bags from other less dogged Birkin seekers. Whether he's relating his wining and dining buying and selling dodging and weaving laughing and crying or schmoozing and stammering Michael is a master raconteur who weaves together tales of hunting Birkins in the world's most posh locales memories of meals that would make any gastronome salivate anecdotes of obsessed collectors with insatiable desires and sweetly intimate stories about his family friends and finding true love. The result is a memoir that is distinctive fun page - turning and as addictive as its namesake.
Title: Bringing Home The Birkin My Life In Hot Pursuit Of The World's Most Coveted Handbag
Author(s): Tonello Michael
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780061473340
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 7/21/2009
Category: Fashion & Society